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We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for

We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts. – Harold MacMillan

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At home, you always have to be a politician when youre abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman. – Harold MacMillan

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I hold every man a debtor to his profession. – Francis Bacon

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America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an ?lite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment. – W. H. Auden

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The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them. – Samuel Butler

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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, theres a layer of people who run everything. But we –were just peasants. We dont understand whats going on, and we cant do anything. – Doris Lessing

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